The Spirituelle of Matter 



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THE SP1RITUELLE OF MATTER 



ENERGY -ALL DIVINE -IS LIFE 



GOD 

THE ALL IN ALL 



By M. L. SENDERLING 



JERSEY CITY, N. J. 
1913 



A FOREWORD 



f| As to the why, and the conditions under which this theory of "The 
Spirituelle of Matter" is offered to take a place in the creative thought of 
humanity, as an aid to refute by indisputable evidence the gross absurdi- 
ties of a bald and vague materialism. The basis of this theory rests upon 
the evidences of a universal, or unitive, Energy "Knowable" through its 
operations and culminating in effects; an inference arrived at by induction 
from the one fact, that there is no indication of a self -generative energy 
anywhere in Nature. 

I wish to criticise a tendency of scientists, especially Spencer, of 
"setting up straw men" (figuratively) in order to "knock them down," 
and thus to gain the eclat of the superficial and of the Philistines of knowl- 
edge. 

I desire also to make a plea for a rugged, vigorous manhood, una- 
fraid to stand up to the consequences due to his own wrongful deeds, by 
accepting without flinching that which is his due without pleading the 
"baby-act;" an act to which a deaf ear is ever turned by inexorable Na- 
ture when a man is found guilty — knowingly or not — of violating her laws. 

The convenient "namby-pambyism" of the day, to avoid the appear- 
ance of a "fuss," is an indication of a canker beginning its attack on the 
vital processes upon which alone human ideals can become established. 
The absolute obedience to normal authority is the ideal, and if recognized as 
under the law of suasion by love — well! that is the highest and best. But 
there are some characters who have not arrived at that goal and need the 
more vigorous discipline of must, until Will conforms and meets the re- 
quirements of Law. 

The writer grew up, from r an early age, to exclusively commercia 
and industrial pursuits, having a limited experience in the fundamentals of 
education, yet possessing a fair degree of the faculty of observation and in 
early manhood strengthened his power of concentration of thought by de- 
veloping new forms of machinery whereby to install better methods along 
mechanical and industrial lines . 

This occupation has been, moreover, favorable in creating an inter- 
est" which put him en rapport with anything that bears upon better methods 
of arriving at practical results. His interest has not been confined to me- 
chanical lines alone, but has broadened out into other lines of thought, con- 
ditioned, however, upon the same essential characteristics of accuracy de- 
manded by mechanical necessities in order to insure the desired effect and 
further that those thoughts have strengthened the belief that there exists 
a reason for every condition as well as for the means by which those condi- 
tions are brought about. 

I have used, therefore, such language as seems to express the 
thought in mind most clearly; trusting that others may strike at, or, criti- 



cise the theory underlying the thought rather than the language, except 
that any suggestion as to it will be exceedingly welcome where it can pre- 
sent the thought more clearly to others. 

I wish to state here a fact in favor of the habit of early observation 
and reflection; that this theory was originally suggested while at the sea- 
shore by desultory thoughts as to the many ' 'properties" of water and of 
air, which thoughts extended also to other objects, as the fruits of the 
earth, their manner of production, &c . , as suggested to me from an expe- 
rience when a small country boy. 

This treatment of the subject should in no way be considered as a 
treatise, but as a statement of facts under personal experience and observa- 
tion, with deductions theref r om. 

One more thought as bearing upon the entire subject: 

It is the effort toward making the corporeal and spiritual natures of 
human existence to co-ordinate with their respective types, that gives Re- 
ligion its Sanction to demand that they be obedient to the laws of their re- 
lationships, as of Type to Type — a process which calls for the ever active 
consideration of the mental and moral faculties of the human race in order 
to fulfill their obligations under those relationships which none have a right 
to evade. 

THE AUTHOR. 



THE SPIRITUELLE OF MATTER. 



Startling? Not if we can Comprehend its Significance! 



In offering the following thoughts upon a new theory as 
to matter, with arguments in support thereof, I realize that it is 
difficult to make the thought clear by use of any existing ety- 
mology to express what I mean by ' ' Qualities ' ' of Matter, as 
this etymology has also a common significance, and likewise I 
realize that a coined word not of general recognition might also 
fail to be understood. 

I therefore state that what I mean by "Qualities" of 
Matter is that something ever constant with Matter and insep- 
arable from it, which admits of no analysis, either physically 
or psychologically*, and yet is an all controlling factor in the 
operations of Nature which I choose to call the Spirituelle 
(Qualities) of Matter as entirely distinct from the material 
elements of "Atoms " or of "ions," etcetera. 

I fully believe that these two elements exist in all matter, 
"Qualities " as being the Energy endowed upon all elements of 
Matter, and atoms, ions, electrons, or other infinitessimal divis- 
ions of matter as the vehicles, which under the excitationt of 
that Energy, create all the known forces in Nature. 



* Copying an illustrious example, it might be called a part of, or, a reflex of "THE 
UNKNOWABLE." 

f Inter-action, due to variant content in degrees of energy constituting correlated forms, 
and, which lay dormant therein? 



THE SPIRITUELLE OF MATTER. 



To Expand the Following Postulate. 



"Qualities of Matter" is that something ever constant 
with matter and inseparable from it. ' ' 

To be distinguished from " Properties " of Matter in this, 
that ' ' the term properties, as applied to bodies, we understand 
the different ways in which bodies present themselves to our 
senses," while the term "Qualities" convey a deeper signifi- 
cance than a material sense — consciousness ; involving as the 
term does, a sense of comparison of ultimate elements and of 
their origin ; a power which is wholly outside of all physical 
sensation. 

That " something" comprises the basic element of every 
form of matter and characterizes its ultra or subliminal parts 
that can by any means be made apparent to man's physical or 
mental sense.* As matter is comprised of many variant forms, 
and whereas they are all found to be susceptible to the one 
single influence which characterizes them all, it seems to empha- 
size the thought that they are of one primary origin, and inas- 
much as that characteristic (susceptability) in all of them 
causes, under favorable conditions, a display of energy, we must 
conclude that every atom of matter is permeated with a poten- 
tial which requires some slight or other disturbance of its equil- 
ibrium which also characterizes every element of matter in its 
normal or inert condition as dormant energy. 

Keeping in mind these two facts, a potential and inertia, 
we may here state a third condition as being evident in the 
fact that matter is of so many forms having varying degrees 
of potential that we may assume that therein lies one chief (I 
might say automatic one in the physical cosmos) element to 
cause a disturbance of the equilibrium, and hence a display of 
energy. And further, that, as the law of physics is that you 
cannot get something out of anything which it has not received, 
one must conclude that that display of energy is due to an 



* As phenomena, or, as resultant effects. 



excitation of some sort by which the equilibrium of that poten- 
tial which exists within every form of matter was broken and 
that energy was released which always lies dormant in every 
part of matter until disturbed from outside of itself. 

As to the fact that matter is of so many forms, and that 
all have had one origin, based upon the equilibration of ether- 
ial or Spiritual (there is no other name for it, and one may be 
in this case substituted for the other,) energy; it may be 
assumed that that energy produced those etherial vibrations 
under various degrees of intensity which upon coming to equil- 
ibrium produced the various elementary atoms of matter for 
the purpose of, or as resulting in their equilibration, and hence 
as lying dormant in the elements of which that energy was the 
sole progenitor ; its form (charactor of atoms) constituting its 
content for that which energy had been expended in exact 
dole. 

This may be merely a speculative theory, but no more 
so than that of electrons as a secondary force, being considered 
as the basis of atoms. 

However, we have an untold variety of elementary atoms 
in many varieties of combinations, which go to make up the 
universe of matter, and yet each element and each combination 
possess that characteristic " something' ' which may be called 
its potential (simply stored energy) which we have called in the 
title of this article the Spirituelle of Matter, and further along 
have illustrated as its " Qualities." In other words, we may 
designate them either as " Qualities of Matter " or as qualities 
(degrees) of Energy, or, the Spirituelle of Matter as embodied 
in substance yet forming no part of substance and yet as its 
sole vitalizing principle. That substance is anything which can 
be identified and classified by name or number, as Air* Water, 
Earth, coal etcetera, or their constituent elements, all of which 
are stored with energy of various degrees, therefore inherent 
therein and which I have called the " Qualities of Matter." 

It is these inherent qualities of matter, or, degrees of 
energy, upon which all physical forces depend; for without 
them there could be no motion among the component elements 
of matter, and I do not hesitate to say that without them no 
matter could have come into existence; for I believe that 
Science will come to the conviction that matter is but the result 



of the equilibrations of the various degrees of intensity of the 
vibrations of energy, and that these "qualities" of their respect- 
ive forms of matter denote their dormant energy, and that it is 
these ' 'qualities" (or, what would be the same thin^ under a 
better or more distinctive name) of matter which was Endowed 
with the power of resistance to motion and thereby to effect 
the equilibration of energy as creative, or, vibrant volitions. 

These all energizing Volitions have incontrovertibly 
arisen from a creative and co-ordinating power that can alone 
account for the exact balance which obtains throughout the 
material universe, subject alone to a reciprocal action brought 
about by a "disturbance" between the variant atoms of matter 
equilibriated from varying degrees of vibrations, at their in- 
ception and which difference in the degrees of those vibrations 
can most likely account for the "disturbance" between the va- 
riant qualities of matter, and which causes all the manifesta- 
tions that are taking place in physical nature and also by which 
the law of their operations, and limitations, were "determined," 
— i. e., determined by the co-efficient of the variant degrees at 
the exact point at which the equilibrations of energy took place 
in forming the subliminal and variant elements of matter. 

But "matter" alone is not our only concern, for there is 
an "energy" lying dormant in all matter, from an energy which 
has called that matter to an existence and which is supreme 
over all matter, to which it is logically consistent to ascribe the 
character of a Pure Will or Volition knowing no limitations as 
to space, or time, nor of power. That will, that power, is that 
unitive energy of which all Creation is the sentient evidence, 
and, the spirit endowed upon man is the crowning, or spiritual 
evidence. —A pity, too, that there exists a spiritual "resist- 
ance," as that there exists a physical resistance to an element 
of that energy; but possibly it is a wise provision— to call forth 
the highest efforts of our nature, or to manifest a wider scope 
of that energy towards mankind as of a wise and beneficent 
Being. 

Of this Volition or Will we have a display throughout all 
the phases of nature as localized Energy from the highest type 
of beings to the lowest order of inorganic things as the moving 
power throughout nature upon the elements of matter which 



through their co-ordination absolutely respond to like vibrations 
or the reflex thereof, that have caused their formation under 
the processes of equilibration of their respective generic ener- 
gies, and, which reflex energies remain dormant and all pervad- 
ing within the various inert forms of matter as pre-ordained 
by creative power for things inorganic ; but as a free energy in 
the organic. 

This dormancy of the (or rather, within the) inorganic 
is absolute until those qualities from any cause become aggres- 
sively attacked from outside of themselves, that is, some 
excitation between variant hence unbalanced potentials. 

The order of Nature has provided that cause, which is 
being demonstrated everywhere in nature in such manner as to 
be not only constant but automatic in their operations. 

I have farther along given an illustration involving 
at least four general objects whose respective qualities co-oper- 
ate and co-ordinate to produce one of the most powerful and 
useful forces in nature — Electricity— ' 'electrons' ' probably being 
its incipient stage. 

Those four objects are opaque matter; transparent mat- 
ter; translucent matter; and matter which by co-ordination of 
many qualities of various forms of matter give out illuminating 
energy. 

Those four objects as forms of matter are the solid mat- 
ter of our globe; Air, Water, and the blazing Sun of our Solar 
system; which I may here state as entering into all the opera- 
tions of nature under Natural Law: the entire operations of 
which take place upon the release of the dormant energies 
stored up in their every constituent element but released only 
therefrom in exact requirement for every operation of nature; 
that is, to supply all Physical forces just as they are required- 
no more, no less. 

Now, this fact is positive proof that there exists nowhere 
in physical nature any free or imminent force, or energy. 

As these energies lie dormant in all matter and as it was 
through the equilibration of these energies, as degrees of vibra- 
tions, of one supreme energy that was the cause of forms of 
matter, it cannot be said that matter has either evolved itself, 
nor, that it is the primary cause of energy. 



A child is not father to its own father — at least it is not 
so in the physical world, however it maybe to delusions of some 
minds. 

But to pursue our table of matter that are stored with 
dormant energies which I call "qualities" of matter and which 
perhaps may be the better recognized through the uses to which 
they are or may be devoted, as may suggest themselves to those 
who use, or, are familiar with them. 

Coal; Wood; Iron; Stone; Sand; Clay; Natural food grains 
of various kinds: Vegetables; Fruits; and the like— all of which 
have their specific ' 'qualities' ' in order to fulfill the designed 
purpose. 

Some of these release their energies at the will and pleas- 
ure of man; others release their energies to sustain the physical 
energies of man's physical life, which life forever after directs 
all those energies derived from matter consumed, to the sus- 
taining of his physical existence — and, for What? 

This "What!" should make every one pause and think 
—from "Whence" this generic energy, which, through its 
equilibrations produced every form of matter and left its own 
proportional element stored up within it to be drawn upon ac- 
cording to human needs. 

Also to think what was essential that that generic energy 
should consist of, as to its characteristics, etcetera. We can- 
not apply the same characteristic to it as we do to matter, be- 
cause it is above matter, for it created matter and it would not 
do to speak of it as qualities, for one would not speak of that 
great energy in man — his mind — as the quality of his body, for 
it would not be true, as it is the only thing of value in his whole 
body, but it gives us a subject for comparison over and above 
all physical things — in the relation of type to Type. 

We are therefore justified in classing that Supreme initia- 
tive energy as Supreme Mind. An "attribute," it is true, but 
related to all existence. It can be nothing less. There is no 
profit in quibbling over superlatives proper to be known, nor of 
those "unknowable," to speak of which is to imply attributes. 

This "Infinite Mind" has endowed all (physical) ele- 
ments of matter with their special "qualities" to contribute to 
the support and comfort of sentient beings, and, as objects of 



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study and appropriation to active use, through the understand- 
ing of them as shown by the power of co-ordination by that 
part of man's nature which is the undoubted reflex of that In- 
finite mind; because there can be no other possible origin from 
whence the mind of man could arise having the power of retro- 
spection and of analysis of like things by A \ike things and from 
the past to plan a path for his future — barring only his control 
over his physical life, and because things of like nature can 
have only one origin. All nature emphasizes these truths. 

It was ordained that all things should obey the law of 
their being — Spiritual beings to obey the Spiritual law and 
physical things the laws of Nature, and man's dual nature to 
obey the laws of both. 

Amid the searchings by scientists as to what matter con- 
sists of elementarily, they have altogether overlooked its func- 
tion, or what it was designed to do amid all the activities of 
nature, its prime characteristic having been hitherto referred 
to as its inertia (physical elements, regardless of their ' 'quali- 
ties' ' which are confluent in the whole mass and whose energy 
on being brought to equilibrium created those storage batteries 
of inert potential to conserve energy to be released only as 
brought into co-operation and co-ordination under natural law), 
whereas it should have always been considered as the store- 
house of energy though lying dormant therein, but which un- 
der excitation from other or exterior forms, providing the 
foundation for the operation of natural law, pour out that en- 
ergy in prodigious volumes. 

The operations in nature began before evolution could 
begin its work — that is, they began by the formation of the 
physical elements of all matter, after which, by the necessities 
of the situation natural law was brought under subservience 
to the law of preparation for its operation. 

Natural Law was therefore the creature of preparation 
for it, and was instituted to rule immutably in the physical uni- 
verse, in obedience to the ordained means — That which philoso- 
phy calls ' 'determinism.' ' 

Those "means" imply Creation by an All Supreme and 
intelligent Being. No other than God! 



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Well it would be that all men should live in "Conscious- 
ness of God" who made them after His own image, to be like 
unto Him in power, intelligence, righteousness and love in so 
far as man can attain unto His perfections by living ever in 
that consciousness of Him through practice of our honest con- 
ception of the perfect man, the best aids to which are the reve- 
lations He has made to man in His word, which if a man cannot 
accept in all good conscience he is blinded to the clearest Light. 

Blessed are they that do His will— A law of privilege and 
love that never has yet failed! 

But to return to the evidences of "The Spirituelle of 
Matter" in its fundamental bearing upon the dual relation of 
man to his divine origin; as evidenced by the fact that the en- 
tire realm of nature is working to the emphasizing of his con- 
nection with the source of all energy which is ever endowing 
him with power and aspirations; sometime, somehow and some- 
where to be fully realized in each several personality and 
which is to be determined by that personality when brought 
into unison with the laws governing his dual nature— the high- 
est obligation resting upon spiritual law (conformity to type) , 
or authority. 



QUALITIES OF MATTER. 



The " qualities " of matter are of such a diversified 
nature that while they in no degree cross each other's lines, as 
to their special characteristics, they are still so wisely consti- 
tuted as to be capable of entering into the 4 'unknowable' ' 
combinations by which the most complex as well as the simplest 
atoms and ions of matter have, under the laws of nature, 
taken on form; whether those forms consist of basic atoms, or, 
ions and their relative subdivisions developing into dependent 
germs or protoplasm of a single world system, or, into the 
complex constitution of the universe. 

The complete order under which natural laws operate 
demand that the source of those qualities emanate from one 
source. 

My contention is, that ' 'qualities" of matter do not pos- 
sess any physical character such as can be detected by a physi- 
cal analysis of matter to the utmost limit of its (matter) 
composite elements, whether under simple or complex forms. 

That is, when we combine elements each possessing its 
own peculiar "quality," all those qualities coalesce in determin- 
ing the special nature or form of the combination and upon 
the resolving of that combination all its elements resume their 
separate or identical qualities, showing that * 'qualities, ' ' quan- 
titatively, leave no physical evidence of their existence, when 
at the same time they have caused the most convincing evidence 
of their existence through their effects. 

Now, if an analysis of matter leaves no physical resi- 
duum of "quality" capable of separation from its elements, 
although it alone permits said elements to enter into combina- 
tion, quality cannot be said to be of a physical nature or origin. 

Now, inasmuch as no element or other form of matter 
can move itself (this gives the factor of stability to forms) and 
yet as all matter is everywhere in motion, there must exist an 
explanation of the cause of universal activity in the realm of 
Nature. 



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/*- 

Again, the undoubted evidence that all organic matter 
has had its origin from an impalpable state or condition (so im- 
palpable that the light from the most distant stars suffers no 
obscuration to our naked vision) this in connection with the 
utter inertia of every form of matter, shows that before matter 
began to take on form there could not have existed any laws 
of physics (natural laws) to control or direct the incipent oper- 
ations by which nature could evolve matter (out) from its 
etherial state. 

Again, Natural Law if self -controlling must have been 
established after Nature was complete in all its varied forms in- 
stead of having its initial operations guided by law, and because 
all natural law depends for its operations upon the already in- 
herent "qualities" of the elements of matter through their sole 
controlling influence, which, by means of their spontaneous ac- 
tions and interactions (while matter itself would otherwise re- 
main inert) are the direct casus-belli of all the forces of nature 
operating under natural law. 

Such a condition demands a progenitor for the elements 
of matter ( having no historic past ) which "in the beginning" 
had no existence either as "atoms" or "ions." 

Again, if life exists under our material existence, which 
has required a material preparation for its manifestation, while 
at the same time there is no inherent principle of life embodied 
in matter nor in any of its combinations, on what grounds do 
scientists (materialists) contend that life is an evolution out of 
matter per se which is absolutely inert except as the varied 
qualities of matter enable it to enter into reciprocal relations, 
and in which those qualities have no physico-analytical status? 
Why, therefore, should lifejbegin its existence after matter has 
become prepared for its manifestation, at the same time leaving 
the question unexplained as to the reason why its various qual- 
ities which, being other than matter ( that is, of a different na- 
ture ) are automatically affected, under favoring conditions, to 
act and react upon each other to cause a disturbance among its 
atoms and thus to create all the known forces in nature un- 
der natural law and by which all changes and combinations, 
both simple and complex, take place: That is in order to 
(** provide the media of its manifestations, the way had to be pre- 






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pared for life's physical relation in its new modes of motion 
(its physical manifestations) in order to co-ordinate with the 
elements of its own distinct spiritual entity differentiated by 
its limitations as degrees of one Supreme Life. 

Were it not for these ' 'qualities' ' of matter which were 
endowed upon matter and existing prior to it in a different field 
than matter, there would have existed no effective force by 
which the changes and combinations of matter Jcould take 
place. 

As elementary matter has a purely material existence and 
is hence totally inert, no forces can be generated by it and hence 
no motion can take place except some other agency outside of 
matter be exerted upon it and to lie dormant therein in order to 
give to matter the dynamic force essential to initiate that mo- 
tion. This agency in no wise can be classed among material 
elements and yet is the sole dependence, or agency which can 
effect any or all material changes, or combinations among the 
elements of matter. 

That operative agency is the varied ' qualities" which 
completely permeate while actually forming no constituent part 
of the elements of matter and which never lose the least trace of 
their elemental qualities although followed out in many com- 
plex relations with "qualities" of diverse elements: i. e., unity of 
origin . 

These "qualities" of matter although permeating it lie dor- 
mant within matter until brought into effective opposition (ap- 
position and co-ordination) with other "qualities" of matter of 
attractive or repelling nature to excite action and reaction be- 
tween said elements when, lo, we find Kinetic action is dev- 
eloped and forces are generated under the operation of natural 
law due not to physical causes, primarily, but to the operation 
of immaterial or ephemeral causes consisting of the non-ma- 
terial elements of the varied "qualities" which permeate every 
element of matter from outside the sphere of matter as from 
the one source, which has created or, brought into existence 
every form of matter by its own fiat, and "charged" it as a 
battery with its own special vitalizing "qualities" as from an 
all unifying, Supreme Energy. 



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Science has based a theory of the creation of matter ( it 
surely had its genesis some time, some how) upon direct ' 'elec- 
tric generation;' ' but who ever sensed (physically or psychologi- 
cally) electrical energy dissociated from material agencies upon 
which that energy (electric) must depend for its own existence? 

In presenting this theory of the "qualities " of matter 
as being the true explanation of the operations of nature and 
the keystone of natural law my argument is intended to illus- 
trate the necessity of recognition of some adequate cause for a 
material existence which its own nature proves did not nor 
could not come into being of itself and thus, by the inductive 
method, to point out that the only alternative cause for exist- 
ence consists in this fact (which all Science must finally 
acknowledge as the ultimate cause of all being) that all matter 
must have a spiritual and not a materialistic origin ; not only 
because of the inertia of every primary element of matter and 
the need for its generation before it could have an existence but 
much the more — that matter can neither create itself nor syn- 
chronise life nor intelligence, and hence the final conclusion : — 
that as life and intelligence, as we have a shadowy conception 
of it by our experience, exists now, it must have had an exist- 
ence eternally — that is, before the first atom of matter came 
into existence. 

Nor is this theory of the Spirituelle (immaterial) nature of 
the "qualities " of matter to be in any degree considered as a 
sort of animism, spiritism, pantheism, nor much the less as any 
foundation for a cult which denies the earthly standards of our 
material existence./^^u^; c^c^/^ZZot cl* g ^n^aX^M 

"" It isrliowever, intended to show the absolute necessity 
for every form of existence as being dependent upon a Being 
who is the "All and in All," and outside of whom there could 
have been no existence, and who, according to a purpose, "cre- 
ated the heavens and the earth" by his fiat in calling matter 
out of nothing in its varied elemental forms and endowing each 
with its specific "qualities " to lay as dormant energies therein 
until fully prepared to enter each in its own sphere into the 
upbuilding of worlds and systems as per a divine plan founded 
upon natural law which itself is based solely upon the dormant 
energies as "qualities " stored up in the elements of matter to 



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be released under the operations of natural law ; which was, 
therefore, the result of a divine act as the outcome thereof and 
hence all existence in the field of nature has its origin in God. 

In considering the Qualities of Matter as non-material 
elements by which alone all the elements of matter are con- 
trolled and every operation in nature takes place and through 
which operations all known physical forces are generated, 
while there has never been found, nor ever will, one single 
existing self-acting force throughout the entire domain of 
Nature, we are led to the study of said qualities and the rea- 
sons for their existence and to account for their origin as ema- 
nating from the source of a many sided energy as manifested 
in all the works of Nature. It is surely inconceivable that 
there can be any change in the relative position of the atoms or 
in the status of the ions (its radiating element) of matter 
except they be induced through the qualities, by which they 
are endowed, being susceptible to and influenced by the outly- 
ing qualities of other atoms or ions being brought into opposi- 
tion and co-ordination. These are caused to operate in nature 
automatically by reason of the laws of nature founded by a 
supreme energy dominating all space and actuated by a divine 
purpose and controlled by a divine power as the basis of a uni- 
versal energy in both the material and spiritual universe as the 
"All in All." 

The helplessness of Science (by the law of elimination) 
to show a self-acting and universal force anywhere in nature 
except msy arise out from these non-material qualities, which 
no physical Science can explain, proves the necessity S? 
accounting for their source^ namely, that they must have arisen 
outside of all material influences in order that the material 
things may be brought to occupy the voids of space and a sys- 
tem and system el systems developed out of material things 
which bespeak the power and glory of infinite Power and of 
Him alone. 

This conception can only apply as to our restricted com- 
prehension of Divine Power but when humanity becomes im- 
mortal and garbed in its glorified form how much vaster will be 
its conception through a realization, full and complete, of that 
power and glory— for "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 



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neither have entered into the heart of man, the things that 
God hath prepared for them who love Him"— also now as well 
as then. 

We therefore deduce corrollaries from the foregoing 
facts: 

First— That matter of all kinds as we know it in its phys- 
ical state did not originally exist in any material form. 

Second— That at a stage of non-existence, matter could 
not spring out from itself by any physical law. 

Third— As material forms do exist and inasmuch as they 
could not have sprung out from a stage of non-existence in the 
absence of physical laws it must be plain that they have arisen 
through an agency that is not physical. 

Fourth— When we see such bountiful evidence in this 
material existence of the glory and intelligence that has crowned 
all material existence and of its dominating power over matter 
one can fully realize that the actual dependence for existence 
of all material things must be attributed to a source whose like- 
ness has been so marvellously displayed in the human race 
limited though it be by its material cell and that only for a 
short period of time as compared to an eternity for its unlim- 
ited exercise. 

The vital principle possessing those cells may, to a very 
minute degree, as of an act but not of substance be likened to 
the qualities of matter all of which have sprung out from one 
vitalizing energy to fulfill His own purpose in behalf of a new 
born race of intelligent beings. 

Since writing this article up to this point, I have come 
across the following quotation under the subject ' 'Spectro- 
scopy' ' in the Encyclopedia Brittanica which seems to verify 
by its incomplete and as I think erroneous conception of elec- 
trons (as pointed out in subsequent comments) this theory of 
the "spirituelle" qualities of all forms of matter, with the quo- 
tation from the same authority from Kelvin, noted further 
along upon the two subjects of radio-activity and electrical 
units, both of which are merely illustrations of the universal 
conditions that subsist as to the active relations of matter to 
its several qualities. 



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"Spectroscopy." 

Quotation from page 623, volume 25, last paragraph in 
first column of Encyclopedia Brittanica, A. D. 1911. 

"We must now inquire a little more closely into 
the mechanical conception of radiation. According to 
present ideas, the wave originates in a disturbance of 
electrons within the molecules. The electrons respon- 
sible for the radiation are probably few and not di- 
rectly involved in the structure of the atom, which ac- 
cording to the view at present in favor, is itself made 
up of electrons. As there is undoubtedly a con- 
nection between thermal motion and radiation, 
the energy of these electrons within the atom 
must be supposed to increase with temperature/ ' — 

or to be affected by other influences causing action and reac- 
tions between the atoms, ions, or as I choose to call them the 
radions excited by opposing radions and caused by the differ- 
entiating ' 'qualities' ' of matter. It is the ' 'qualities' ' which 
are the direct effect of the ' 'disturbance" mentioned in the 
foregoing quotation and not the "electrons" because no elec- 
trons can exist until they are excited to action by the apposition 
of the various "qualities" which give the electrons their birth. 
We must still go back of "electrons" to account for every 
energy, or force, displayed in Nature. "Electrons" can exist 
only as a mode of motion induced by the release of energy pri- 
marily stored up in the elements of matter as "qualities" of its 
various forms as their matrix causing the decomposition of 
the material elements of atoms, causing their expansion and 
by their material impulse of increased volume create a Kinetic 
energy known as physical forces. 

No physical force exists except as created through some 
such process— not even electrical force, thought by some to be 
immanent energy, although not so, as no one ever yet saw a 
manifestation of it except along the foregoing processes. 

This fact is comflrmed since stating it by reference to 
Encyclopedia Brittannica, page 740, Volume 27 in the words of 
Kelvin— subject, "Electrical Units" as follows: — "As an elec- 
trical current is not a thing but a process, " (mode of motion!) 
"the unit current can only be reproduced when desired." 



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Also under "Units-Physical." "The progress of this 
co-ordination of units has been greatly aided by the discovery 
that forms of physical energy can be converted into one 
another" — not a change of what exists per se, but a conversion 
by method of production by a process different from that which 
produced other forms of physical energy. 

It is not so great a strain upon one's credulity to believe 
that Spirit and intelligence existed before matter as it would 
to believe that matter existed before that which can control 
matter (although, humanly speaking, to a limited degree) to 
suit its own purposes; or much less to believe that matter can 
develop itself into thought and as an essential preparation to 
provide so complex a medium as the human system, whereby 
to give thought expression. 

Again, what can be more convincing of the eternal (im- 
mortal) relation of mind to Mind than the universal assurance 
in all ages of an unseen Power over us? 

A thorough understanding of the operations of Nature 
must reveal the great fact that Nature is everywhere leading 
up to God as revealed to us in these very qualities of^fnatter 
which were founded in Him and are forever being exercised 
aggressively and responsive^ to the influences of other ever- 
lasting and unifying qualities oi^matter which by such co-ordi- 
nation have created such magnificent results and which give 
proof of one single author of both — the Creator of the one and 
Father of the other. 

Creator of matter and charging it with energy. The 
Father of Mankind breathing his life into it to appear as of 
His likeness founded within immortal life. 

As a final thought ascribing to God the authorship of 
Natural Law; who shall deny that it is these very qualities of 
matter that accounts (by their interdependence and co-ordina- 
tion) for the great law of gravitation; for the great balancing 
between the centripetal and centrifugal forces which are oper- 
ating throughout space in obedience to those laws? And thus, 
that it is God who alone rules the universe and in whom 
all energy is centered yet reaches out to infinity, and whose 
government shall be upon the shoulder of one who is called 
"Wonderful, Counsellor; the Mighty God; Everlasting Father; 



To Develop the Thought in Fourth Paragraph on Page 
Sixteen of "The Spirituelle of Matter." 



All nature to be considered as of a divine origin as an 
unifying energy which co-ordinates all the multitudinous and 
differentiated ' ' qualities of matter ' ' in variant inorganic forms 
from the lowest to the highest development ; i. e. , as forms of 
matter endowed with their respective co-efficients of energy, in 
order to complete their effective preparation for the still higher 
development into the organic as the intermediary between inert 
substance and the higher manifestations of energy, according 
to a foreordained purpose. 

After the preparation for that higher manifestation was 
complete a new order in the manifestation of energy culminated 
in the highest order of existence as creatures, not as mere 
" things," capable of apprehending (some — many— of) the pre. 
ceding processes by which that preparation was effected by 
being endowed with the characteristics (a degree) of that energy 
by which the preparation was completed for their existence, in 
that its ' ' likeness ' ' was bestowed upon them in personal, or, 
as in entitative, relations ; i. e., as having an identity of being 
of like type, as a spiritual entity, incapable of extinction or of 
absorption because of the " determinism " of a supreme pur- 
pose. 



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The Prince of Peace"— until the ' 'final consummation unto 
the end when all things shall be subdued unto Him and the 
Son be subject unto God who is All in All." 

Who shall read the mighty history of the universe except 
those who have a hold upon immortality— a history that over- 
passes all the woes and strifes of human experiences and re- 
corded in its annals every line clear and distinct to all who 
choose to open to them. 

Shall — can — human aspiration be forever obliterated by 
the passing of its material garb back into its elements and thus 
leave no trace of its most valuable possession and raise no 
question of its ''Whence and Whither?" The very form of the 
question shows a consciousness, abnormally undeveloped though 
it be, of an immortal relation to an infinite past, present and 
future which no- man can wholly escape however hard he 
may try. 

Why? 

Is not the answer written in the entire Book of Nature 
as revealed in the Word of God to lead men to study and explore 
the records of Nature in corroboration of&s revelations to men 
when Science was an unknown dependence of men and as a 
record of its facts without any existence? 

Is not a proved revelation (proved in so many ways and 
instances) as a leader of thought and of uplift, of greater use 
to our race than all efforts to disparage it in any way by fallible 
men who, for faith, present impossible theories which lead to 
doubt but furnish no valuable proof of their theories? 

I think the question supplies its own answer. 



THE GREATER VALUES. 



For among the greater values which are the measure of 
time— " Time' ' as unlimited by finite bounds; and Values as 
fixed by the highest concept of worth based upon complete adap- 
tation and co-ordination existing between every media through 
which a complete order has been established everywhere within 
those bounds and creating values; those values must surely be al- 
lotted first place in the revelations of Nature which give evidence 
of a recognition of the perfect adaptation and co-ordination of 
every element of matter arising out from the etherial state by 
the exercise of infinite energy, charging it with its own energy, 
and, crowned by its own likeness; that is, having the power to 
recognize itself as a part of that which is the fount of all Val- 
ues Eternal. 

There is nothing that can be considered as in any respect 
approaching such values as that of Consciousness joined with a 
free-will; as it is the most important exemplification of an intel- 
ligent purpose in establishing such a magnificent order in Nature 
which has given to man the beneficient power of appropriation 
and of appreciation— (responsive Values as of one type) ! And 
also in this:— that in man alone those same characteristics of 
consciousness, free-will and intelligent purpose are so highly 
illustrated as a crown upon the entire order of Nature. 

If there be such a thing as worth (intrinsic Value) surely 
we must find it here as the value of a complete content — Ap- 
propriation; Appreciation; Consciousness; Free-will; High Pur- 
pose and embodied in a type of Being like unto his Eternal 
Auto— Type— as the Eternal Values. 

If those eternal values of conscious, intelligent life were 
to be extinguished as a flame is extinguished it would violate 
the law of Nature looked at from the materialistic standpoint 
(to illustrate another law) as it would annul the law of Con- 
servation of Energy, under the assumption that life is a purely 
physical product, or a chemical combination; but who ever found 
the least physical molecule or ion of life anywhere existing in any 
element of matter? To attempt to recover any such as the prod- 



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uct of chemical action would be folly, being a physical impossi- 
bility which is a positive proof thas life is not of a physical ori- 
gin and must belong to an order wholly by itself. Now, what 
is good law in the physical world may be considered good law 
in the world out from which the physical arose— the world of 
Spirit Life. We may therefore apply the like law of ' 'Conserva- 
tion of Energy' ' to the world ruled by an "Energy all Divine." 

I have referred elsewhere to the illustration of a flame 
in proof that flame and life bear no co-ordinate relation. 

Matter in chemical combinations can only produce along 
the lines of matter whether solids, fluids or in gaseous form all 
of which are resolvable, or reactive. This cannot be said of 
organic life and therefore its crowning nature is not physical. 

Again as there was no appearance of life in the physical 
world during the formative ages and not until the preparation for 
its entry was completed and, then, that life should appear and 
dominate the media of its manifestations, i. e., directing its 
every function by its own unaided energy, proves that that life 
which the organic life is the reflex of, or, as bearing a relation 
to it, is the only free energy that ever could have dominated in 
the affairs of nature, and inasmuch as it is doing so under the 
most complex operations in nature, as now going on, it must 
likewise have been that dominating energy at the beginning — or 
Eternal and hence Immortal Life is. 

(* Again, Life cannot be compared to the evanescence of a 
flame which can rise only from those elements produced by the 
direct action of life; because of this simple fact, that a flame is 
supported altogether by the elements of matter which life has 
supplied and co-ordinated to support combustion not one of which 
elements are lost (but still remain as matter in some other form) 
through the paying out of that which they have received from 
life.^ T 

\j On the other hand Life as life needs and gets no support 
for itself but only for the vehicle of its manifestation in a pro- 
cess through which it adds to (instead of taking from) everyone 
of those means which support life; i. e., as of the elements of 
matter, or, rather the life giving elements of matter which 
"life" (as free energy) has entered into as constituting and 
co-ordinating the life sustaining principle in all the foods of 



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man every one of whose growing operations are dominated by 
Life, whether it be manifested as life of man, or of beast, 
bird?, reptiles, plant, or vegetable, as living things. 

I- Life out of Life is the order of Creation as God's King- 
dom of Life: 

\s Life ever remains life— a spiritual fact, and, Matter re- 
mains matter a physical fact, as the vehicle of operations by 
life in this material Universe with both constituting the dual 
relation between the Spiritual and the physical as per Design, 
the spiritual as Supreme Life everywhere immanent. 

To expand the thought on flame (light) herein referred 
to as being derived from, or made to appear as the result of 
vibrations caused by the co-ordination of the variant ' 'Quali- 
ties" of matter which support combustion, let us consider 
light as the first principle of energy which entered into the 
constitution of the universe simultaneously with its inception. 

'In the beginning God created the heavens and the 
earth;" and God said: "Let there Be Light!" It was the first 
edict of Him who is Light— the first display of energy in the 
vast universe and which is the basis of every manifestation 
of energy throughout the universe to this day and all due to 
that dormant energy in nature which God implanted from him- 
self in every atom of matter. 

Is this not fully confirmed by the many appearances of 
comets which give out light and which is probably caused by 
the intensity of vibrations arising between variant degrees of 
dormant energy resident within the subliminal element of gase- 
ous, or, etheric norms ? 

I simply throw out this suggestion as a possibility only, 
as it belongs to others qualified to pursue such investigations. 

In considering the subject of God as Light, we do well to 
dismiss all sordid, superficial, unethical, or, physical conceptions 
of light which can be conceived only as, in part, a reflex of, or as 
a refraction from Him and to behold that light as the great illum- 
inating energy variant in degree that affords an insight into 
"The Deep Things of God" as well as to radiate the fact of a 
terrestrial existence. 

I wish to state also here that any theory herein expressed, 
not fully borne out by arguments which are absolute proof of 



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them, shall be referred to like competent investigators; as my sole 
object in writing down these thoughts is that men of "high, or 
of low degree' ' may return to the right conception of this glori- 
ous universe and that we may all be brought back into a full 
conception of Truth as through a complete "Consciousness of 
God" in nature and over all, and, specifically that those who are 
made "in his likeness" should bear their first fruit, by living 
as in that likeness and thereby manifesting that ever ' 'Consci- 
ousness of God." 



LIFE AS FREE ENERGY. 



Note the Kinetic power of human action through the 
powers of the human will as the result of thought demonstrated 
by written word, speech, and the many other ways by which 
thought is made to accomplish great deeds. 

One instance is that by which it moves vast masses of 
thinking men and builds vast works as compared with the sim- 
ple power of impregnation of molecules of matter with emana- 
tions from itself as the great fount of all Energy. 



Persistence of Types. 

A simple illustration of the persistence of Types as 
depending upon an arbitrary law of existence of like producing 
like as experienced in a life of seventy-five years, during sixty- 
eight years of observation, noted first as a boy. 

It occurred in the line of Arboriculture, in which graft- 
ing of fruit scions, such as budding and stem grafting takes 
place, by budding a pear stem upon apple stock. The juices 
or sap of the apple tree nourished the pear stem which, of 
course, yielded pear fruit. 

The reason for this was the fixed "determination" of a 
living, although invisible pear nuclei existing as the energy 
capable of producing only its own kind within the original pear 
stem only, and not in the fruit, as I am told pear seeds do not 
produce the same flavor or shape as its own fruit and yet are 
the source of its varieties. This is corroborated by another 
illustration in the case of a variety of apples known as Spitzen- 
bergs, which, for the same period of time stated, can be grown 
solely from grafts from stem or bud cut from a branch that has 
borne Spitzenberg apples, which, in flavor, shape and coloring, 
are quickly recognized as such in its fruitage. It seems to me 
to be the law, of some kinds at least, of fruit propagation. It 
cannot be caused by any process of evolution, inasmuch as the 
seeds of the fruit provides us with so vast a number of varieties 



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which cater to diversified tastes of man. Is there not some 
significance in both of these facts— a determinism founded 
upon some predetermined act or relation, and a useful or pleas- 
urable result in ministry to the comfort and pleasure of our 
race ? 



The Vibratory Co-Efficient. 

I believe that every primary element of matter has its 
vibrant co-efficient, any combination of elements would make it 
difficult, perhaps impossible, to ascertain the exact vibratory 
content. 

If any primary element could be found to respond to vibra- 
tions of different intensities under just the right conditions and 
all the effects upon structure, action, etcetera, be completely 
recorded it might be possible to measure its co-efficient of 
energy for each and every purpose to which that element could 
be utilized ; that is, if its atomic content was formed under 
vibratory action. But what would be the result ? Disintegra- 
tion and absorption into or neutralized by the energy expended 
in the process ? Such a result could not result in physical 
increase or utility, but only as settling a scientific fact as to the 
nature of material elements. 

It occurs to my mind that that vibrant co-efficient would 
have to be under the excitation of some forms of light, or 
induced by light of like characteristics and conditions that pre- 
vailed under which these elements were formed. 



ENERGY— ALL DIVINE— IS LIFE. 



Under the operations in the inorganic world of nature, 
energy is released through the co-ordinating effects of the 
qualities of matter, of variant forms under the established order 
of things according to the commands of natural law; but, in the 
organic world that energy acts directly through the sole energy 
of life whose highest characteristics known to mortals are Will 
and purpose and every attribute of Life Infinite being as a re- 
script of every other covering all Perfection. 

(Since placing the Ms. in the hands of the printer, I insert the fol- 
lowing Note in order to amplify and justify the devotional conceptions of 
the Attributes which Religion has ascribed to the Great First Cause of all 
existence. 

The occasion of this insert arose after reading Part I., especially Sec- 
tions 31 and 32 of Herbert Spencer's "First Principles" and after I had 
finished my work. 

This also applies to the note at the end of the subject matter under 
the title of "Energy — All Divine — Is Life" controverting his argument rel- 
ative to the "Unconditioned" as being inconceivable by the "Conditioned.") 

Note: — Those Attributes of Perfection are as a pure Energy and can- 
not be "Unconditioned," inasmuch as they are comprehensive of every 
ascription to an entity under such Attributes as Life, Spirit, Love, Truth, 
Light, God, Father, Mind, Intelligence, etcetera, being what we may call 
different manifestations of One Reality Known to us as Life and which have 
a fully recognized relation with the Infinite Cause from whence all things 
were caused to exist and which are typically ( not symbolically) manifested 
in the ideals of Perfection from every view-point of the human mind by 
which to express the highest conceptions of which the human intellect and 
affections are capable of; and, being in responsive harmony with such ideals, 
arising as they do from their inspiring Anti-Type, or, as Like producing 
Like, or as corresponding with Like, or Type with Type. 

Although "incomprehensible" as it is to us, yet we find the same 
"conditions" to exist in reference to the human mind which cannot know 
its own full power, nor set a limit to that power; and, which therefore rep- 
resents the only conceivable and incontestible "likeness," howbeit only in 
a degree, of that pure Energy which is over "all and in All." 

In speaking of the human mind as the only conceivable likeness to 
that pure Energy, it is rational to say that things that exist have a vital 
relation to the "Cause" of their existence and constitute the only logical 
evidence by which to conceive and judge of that "Cause." It institutes the 
only method, or way, by which we can arrive at the truth in regard to all 
existence — finite or infinite. 



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In the organic world it is light alone, primarily (as heat 
is alone caused by retarded light due to the interception of light 
rays) that arouses the co-operation, or, reactions and co-ordin- 
ations between the dormant energies of radio-active, vaporizing, 
attractive, or, repulsive, or, other characteristic qualities of 
matter that brings the material elements (whether gaseous, or 
solids) into co-ordination, and, through which the various forces 
in nature are rendered active and (which) generate Kinetic 
action, or, conscious effects; conscious not to themselves but to 
sentient beings of an advanced order ;—i. e., of a type infinitely 
beyond an order of mere things which are merely endowed with 
* 'qualities' ' which partake of creative energy but under limita- 
tion of localized, or, corporeal (material) forms. 

This ''Being of an advanced Order" bears no compara- 
ble relation to the order of mere "Things," inasmuch as all of its 
functions, or, operations are manifested along altogether differ- 
ent planes which the latter ("things") are wholly designed to 
serve and over which it is capable of exercising a limited con- 
trol, subject only to above conditions. 

That order of "Beings" represents all that which pos- 
sesses and represents the true, or, eternal Values in a material 
universe — the Values of Being or conscious Existence which can 
alone be the primal or generic source of Energy everywhere 
manifested throughout the bounds of Space and Time and com- 
prehensibly designated as Life capable of entering into every 
manifestation which can appeal to its own consciousness, plan- 
ning for the multitudinous manifestations and co-ordinations of 
that unitive Energy and "breathing" forth out from an etherial 
nothingness "volitions" which vibrate with energy and under 
whose equilibrations (finished concepts), those volitions have 
resolved into concrete material forms as arising out of a cre- 
ative energy and which are embodied therein as the vital en- 
ergy resident in every form of matter unto its ultimate limita- 
tions — and, such Being is Life— vibrant. 

That Life has been handed down from the Infinite Life to 
permeate the finite and as such to reproduce itself in the finite 
as the reflex of itself that Man may "Know thyself" as to his 
"Whence and Whither." 

This giving of himself through his all Supreme and re- 
flex energy to the finite, necessitates the various and multitu- 



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dinous adaptations of that energy throughout all the stages of 
creation and onward throughout all enduring world systems, 
from the very rudiments of elemental or inorganic matter unto 
its highest and most complex organic forms, and which are 
rendered essential to the embodiment of that typical and reflex 
energy which alone is Life itself and hence— Immortal — having 
its culmination in the human race according to design, and of a 
setting apart an order of beings to occupy a new sphere of ex- 
istence in which a new relation is created and a race born into 
the family of God; and, in His likeness, having one Father, and, 
each individual having an established relation to God as Father, 
and to each other as His children and who marked by lineaments 
in his own separate personality traced by lines of identity, which 
shall never be effaced, but which, as immortals, shall persist 
eternally in characteristics illumined by celestial light. 

Those characteristics will no doubt be as, or more, dis- 
tinctly recognized among immortals as among mortals under full 
play of all their faculties. 

This life immortal is conscious Being, and in its essence 

wholly unrelated to things created, which possess no reasoning 

,f? consciousness of ils existence nor much less to question fe 

origin nor predicate ite future, either as to time nor as to 

eternity. 

Those who sow to the flesh, i. e., regarding only material 
existence, are likened unto "brute beasts that perish' ' in that 
neglecting the things of the spirit they become blinded to the 
contemplation of those things which the spirit alone can reveal — 
their organs of sense becoming atrophied from non-use. 

In the organic world it was essential that Life should 
appear as an active, self -directing energy in order to initiate 
impulse yet dependent upon co-ordinating conditions, i. e., the 
organism must be such that it is capable of responding to the 
conditions under which life can alone direct the operations of 
that organism by co-ordinating all of its chemical or other 
operations through the transmutations of one form of matter 
into others as a fit "temple" for its own finite in-dwelling— 
finite as the sources of its sustenance derived from transient 
forms wherein is written decay, as of "Earth to Earth." 

Even when an organ be separated from its original cor- 
poreal locus it requires the skillful handling of an expert living 



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practitioner and a living torso similar to that from which it was 
separated in order to continue its function in a new situation, 
as well as that its own organism be perfect. Such a situation 
is a well known process in arboriculture, etcetera, and in both 
there must be those life responsive qualities embodied in the 
transplanted organic matter which can respond to the living 
energy of a living stock in exact co-operation. 

Outside of Life there exists no self-directing energy any- 
where in nature; a momentous fact unless it can be proved 
otherwise. But it cannot! 

' ' Finite " is written upon every organic body ; the Why 
is wrapped in secrecy to finite beings; " Earth to Earth" is 
the order of organic Life, of unlimited personalities for unlim- 
ited earthly generations of immortals of Earth age continuity ; 
were it not so people would crowd the land. 

Life out from Life is infinite, without limitation, wheth- 
er as a "root" or as a "vine of many branches." 

It is much tfee more probable that life should spring from 
life than that it should spring out from that which is without 
life. 

Things immortal belong to life. 

Life is! Therefore Life is immortal. Life and Energy are 
synonymous. 

Energy and matter create physical forces. 

Free or Supreme Energy, having power to create must 
also possess power to transmute. 

Neither matter nor energy could create themselves out 
from nothing. Therefore, as we know that material or inor- 
ganic forms made up out of atoms, or its subliminal elements, 
as well as the dual relation of inorganic forms did not, at one 
time, exist as such, and as we also know that energy also 
exists, and also that it dominated all matter in some form by 
bringing it into existence and lying dormant therein we must 
admit that energy existed before matter could possibly exist. 

Again, if energy could not create itself, and as it neces- 
sarily must have existed before matter, the ultimate fact 
remains that Energy is Eternal. What more fitting conception 
can we have of it than as a living, all-wise, all-powerful Being 



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as God over All in All ? To be clothed by human consciousness 
as with attributes, a noted scientist to the contrary, which ever 
demand the highest, deepest and noblest expressions of the 
human mind and affections ; or, as entirely opposed to all 
sen sous contaminations which lead to, and only to, degradation 
of man's dual nature. 

The only energy that exists in the universe of inorganic 
matter that is apparent to physical sense is that which we find 
to lay dormant in matter, or its elements ; hence, all generated 
or Kinetic forces are physical only in secondary relations. 
Now, as matter is absolutely inert, physical forces are not due, 
primarily, to matter but to that established energy residing in 
it, being caused to act by natural law in our Solar system under 
that vast fount of light radiating from its luminary, the Sun, 
as its centre. 

This present condition of our Solar system does not imply 
that light may not have been an accompaniment of an incan- 
descence of our globe at an early stage, and later of a bursting 
forth at many vents which would cause gradations of light and 
heat in contiguous territory favorable to luxurious vegetation 
and to the various processes which have evidently gone on 
during its earlier stages ; that light being one of the estab- 
lished facts in nature as representative to physical sense may 
be likened to one of the attributes of Deity, or of an Energy 
all Supreme " enlightening every man that cometh into the 
world ;" that is, set as the enlightener of all not self -blinded to 
his effulgent rays. 

"God is Light:" — Whose energising powers form the 
foundations of the universe swinging through space to a divine 
symphony in one grand harmony between creature (created 
things) and Creator. 

Note: — In "First Principles" where Spencer in Sections 31 and 32 
inveighs against entertaining conceptions of (his) "Unconditioned" — the 
"Unknown Cause;" — by the "Conditioned" — the human mind; he abso- 
lutely overlooks the fact that he has stultified himself by his theories in 
regard to according attributes to that Unknown Cause by others by doing 
that very self-same thing, in that he ascribes to his "Unconditioned" Some- 
thing, the "Attributes" of a "Cause." 

An "Unknown Cause" so "transcentally great" that intelligence at- 
tributed to it would become a "degradation" of it (how did he figure that 



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out?), and yet he says (inferentially) that that Cause concerned itself with 
the formation of atoms which make up the universe of matter — not one of 
its elements able to ratiocinate upon itself nor of its ' 'Cause." A very sat- 
isfying "Condition" for Spencer's ideals. 

On the other side of the same relative relation we find man endowed 
with life, conscious of himself and all the relations thereof, with full power 
of reason and its relation to conscious life anywhere and everywhere and 
capable of realizing and enforcing the grandest ideals to which that life 
may be developed in noble living by cultivating high conceptions of respon- 
sibility and accountability for his every act in relation thereto, or, as bear- 
ing upon, his relation to that high source from which that life has issued. 

If that "Cause" has stooped to concern itself with mere atoms, where 
does the "degradation" come in when intelligent human beings who are the 
grandest product of that "Cause," with whom that Cause must also have 
concerned itself, exercise the powers of their type still farther by ascribing 
to the Creator of atoms the "Attributes" of "Cause;" while others who 
see in the Creator of All things, an incomprehensible Being who has, out of 
nothing, constituted atoms in the inorganic world, and, in certain other 
atoms of the organic world endowed with a mind to apprehend (which 
atoms cannot do) that Being, although in some faint degree, ascribe to Him 
the appellation of God; or the Infinite Mind or other Attributes which that 
free spirit in man conceives of a pure spirit — as Life, Light, Love, the Al- 
mighty Father, the All in All, or, by any other Attribute which a grateful 
being may choose, devotionally to bestow ? 

Which is the better of the two — an inexpressible (?) recognition (?) 
by inert atoms, or, an atrophied sense, or — a devotional ascription of attri- 
butes expressing the conceptions of conscious and intelligent creatures ? 

That is; — which conforms the closest to human reason as well as to 
the intuitive, or universal sense of our race ? 

To say of some, or, of any asserted "Cause" which we admit as pro- 
ducing an effect, such as originating atoms or the elements of matter, that 
the "Cause" is "Unconditioned" would be an absurdity, because of the 
fact that it bears a relation to its own work and that to identify the work 
is, to give some kind of an identity to the workman ? 

It would be a refusal of the strongest evidence to reject the testimony 
which the act has accomplished if we deny the actor as comprehensible by 
the evidence of His Works. 

Spencer's whole argument therefore is absurd, or, disingenuous when 
he tries to prove that a Creator is positively "Unknowable" through human 
conception, and is a mere recrudescence of the Sophists, mixed with the 
ancient Greek practice of religion in erecting temples ' 'Unto the Unknown 
God. " Oh ! for another Paul. 

One might as well argue that because the quality in a peach or any 
other fruit or food which gives to each their recognizable flavor or odor is 
"unknowable," and that we must not give to these flavors or odors the 
appellation of sweetness, delicious or other qualities that may distinguish 
each; nor to apply any term of distinction to the various forms of fruit, 



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food, &c, only because we cannot know the peculiar inter-relation of flavors 
to their corpus, as the media of their manifestation! 

It is "inconceivable" that there can be such a thing as an unrelated 
relation as between Cause and Effect anywhere in nature, nor any elsewhere. 

A very simple illustration of man' s perversity in obstructing spiritual 
illumination by drawing the dense veil of prejudice, self-will, or ignorance 
and indifference in uncovering unpalatable (to him) facts, is that of one 
shutting out the light of the sun by drawing an opaque curtain before all 
the apertures for light in a room — the apertures are there under his own 
control ! but—? 



ILLUSTRATIONS, 



Illustrations of the excitation of the dormant energies 
resident in all matter. 



Water as to its " evaporative qualities, etc." 

Water is subject to many various influences as light, wind, 
gravitation, attraction, etcetera. 

As to the influence of light we find that the water inter- 
cepting by its resistance to the penetration of its rays produces 
heat; heat acting upon the evaporative qualities of water causes 
its molecules to expand until vapor, which is necessarily lighter 
(by reason of such expansion) than water, arises from it; which 
vapor, by reason of its expanded and heat content, becomes 
lighter than the air; and, because of the qualities of air to ab- 
sorb a certain portion of vaporized water, we have air more or 
less saturated with vapor invisible up to the point of full satura- 
tion, when, by some unknown (to me) process this vapor seg- 
regates into cloud (attraction of like particles probably. ) 

To anticipate a little, I remark here that this kind (by 
heat only) of evaporation has not been accompanied by friction 
and thus has not generated any potential force within the vapor 
and hence none within the cloud formed by such vapor and 
therefore those clouds will not be storm clouds, but perhaps 
simple rain, or, mere vapor like steam to be readily absorbed 
by currents of drier air. 

But, when light falls upon an impenetrable surface after 
passing through the air which slightly retards its rays produc- 
ing a certain volume of heat absorbed by the air, it becomes 
still more retarded by the greater resistance to passage and 
causes a still greater intensity of heat to the earth's surface 
which becoming reflected back into the air causes it to expand 
and thereby reducing its weight, quantitively, until it becomes 
so rarefied over large spaces as to cause a partial vacuum; so 
that outlying territory, or upper strata of air not so highly rare- 



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fied rush in with great velocity (force or Kinetic energy) to fill 
the partial void. 

Now, under this Kinetic force the winds pass over vast 
areas of water creating friction and generating "electrons," 
which, because of the absorbing qualities of the air absorb vapor 
and with it certain electrons generated by friction between the 
wind and water, to charge, or, temporarily store electricity in 
such vapor and by the "quality" or power of condensation to 
form into clouds from which, under certain other conditions, 
both are released under forms of rain, lightning, fire balls and 
the like. 

I do not think an enumeration of other instances can add 
any emphasis to the great fact stated in the first paragraph of 
Illustrations; believing that there is not an element of matter 
in which these dormant energies of matter but what are more 
or less affected unto activity through the effect of light at some 
stage or another of our celestial and terrestrial order; as being 
the true, practical and economic law of nature which has never 
revealed, nor ever will, a single instance where any force or 
energy acted in any other way than indirectly; except in or- 
ganic matter as the direct action of Life, and, at the genesis of 
matter which must necessarily ante-date every Natural Law. 

CONSTITUTION OF MATTER. 



One theory of the differences between elements of matter 
may be assumed; that at the genesis of those elements gene- 
ration occurred under a volition of energy as an original or 
prime mover generating motion at various degrees of intensity 
and at the end of such volition, purpose having been accom- 
plished, an equilibration occurred among or to the vibrations 
which by some farther process, may be, took on some physical 
form the differences of which — in kind— are due to varied inten- 
sity of vibrations which, still governed by the volitions, causing 
equilibration; the prime result of equilibration being matter 
charged with dormant energy in its concrete or physical forms. 

As volition or Will, as the known characteristic of Life 
alone, is found only in organic life long after inorganic exist- 



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ence has furnished means for its subsistence and means for its 
expression (in its dual relation) ; it is not unreasonable to assume 
that during that process and eternally prior to it that there ex- 
isted an energy which all elements of matter are charged with 
and that that energy was a Supreme Will exercising volition in 
all ways. It is not reasonable to assume that Energy created 
itself (Scientifically "unthinkable") nor that it is a physical 
"content" as it cannot be located as such content because there 
is no appearance anywhere in nature outside of its dormancy in 
matter as a heritage; except as before stated in organic life. 

The final conclusion must be that if life alone at the con- 
summation of things material is the only prime mover through- 
out the physical universe, there could have been no other prime 
mover at the genesis of things "than Life as the great energiz- 
ing force in that universe. 



REMARKS. 



It is far more consistent with the strictest rules of sci- 
entific research to lay the greater stress upon the better 
grounded theory or that which is the most reasonable as con- 
nected with established facts: I offer this postulate in refer- 
ence to the established truth upon which every science must 
depend in every search for facts— that every effect has its cause. 

My argument, illustrations and assumed analysis of the 
genesis of matter takes full cognizance of this basic law from 
which I desire to fully emphasize the inevitable and most 
reasonable conclusion that inasmuch as Science has finally set- 
tled down to the theory "that matter is generated through or 
by way of (as I understand it— no other way seeming possible) 
the equilibration of "electrons," that such a theory leaves a 
very wide gap in accounting for those "electrons." 

It is an indisputable fact supported by any and every ex- 
periment that electrical effects while appearing as under several 
forms, among which electrons may appear as the original ele- 
ment, it still remains the fact that those electrons are only sec- 



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ondary; as they appear only after matter has already taken on 
form and been in frictional contact among its atoms. 

As to the present conclusions of Science as to the form- 
ation of matter, is it not more reasonable to assume that in the 
genesis of matter that there must be an initiating cause ? This 
is evident; because of its (Science) fixity upon ' 'electrons' ' as 
the basic energy underlying matter. The fact is that those 
electrons are only secondary to matter itself — that is, they arise 
out of matter already formed, or in process of formulation, under 
frictional (or equivalent) contact and stored under equilibration 
of its energy within its atoms in its positive and negative forms 
in certain forms of matter, not all. 

If we assume that electrons are the starting point of mat- 
ter we must assume that electrons were either eternal or that 
they created themselves. We know they could not do the latter 
neither were they the former because we know that they are 
only secondary, or frictional effects, and not causes. 

With this elimination of electrons as explaining the origen 
of matter the way has been prepared for our final postulates as 
a recognizable basis for all scientific research. 

For, if ' 'electrons' ' which have no physical status is an 
existence as some scientists have asserted permitting of no 
physical analysis, it is not inconsistent to assume that that 
thing which is the inciting cause of those electrons is much the 
more entitled to be classed as a superior existence; and, by 
pursuing the analysis still farther (if that was necessary and 
possible) to assume the theory of a Supreme Existence out from 
which every Energy in Nature has had its origin as being in 
true agreement with the facts. 

In fact the universal operations seen and recognized in 
nature demand the mental stimuli that no investigation is com- 
plete until we have accounted for conditions out from which 
the things investigated have come into existence; for there 
never will, nor ever can, be found under the most searching in- 
vestigations of all or any incipient physical conditions that will 
ever reveal any explanations of them as showing an origin as 
arising under Natural Law which the materialist bases his in- 
vestigations wholly upon, in face of the fact that they arose 
before Natural Law had any basis for operation. 



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I offer this also as proof that ' 'Volition' ' expressing itself 
as a pure Will is in no way dependent upon the operation of 
Natural Law and therefore is not subjected to the same pro- 
cesses of development, but upon another code entirely; a code 
wholly educational and with moral instincts intuitively sugges- 
tive of its divine origin, and under which relations it lies under 
the highest obligations of conformity to its type. 

It seems like a waste of energy in attempting to elicit a 
theory of the origin of matter if we neglect to consider the 
only possible predecessor of matter, which must and ever will 
remain "unknowable" unless we exercise the right to a compari- 
son with the character of the only existing type which can and 
does dominate it — this very waste of energy under the physi- 
cal law of "conservation of energy" places that effort outside 
of the law of physics as herein contended and as proving the 
existence of two distinct natures which all ought to recognize 
as the Spiritual and Physical; the former creative of the latter 
and permeating it, although from its very nature undiscernible 
by any analysis (although discovered by its effects) , while the 
latter certainly cannot create nor develop the former through 
any chemical, or other process, because no physical product re- 
sults from them, inasmuch as the elements that entered into 
these processes are quantitively the same physically although 
changed in form but not lessened at all: whereas, if the chemi- 
cal action produced thought the elements entering into the pro- 
cess must be lessened by as much as the expenditure had en- 
tered into thought and, finally ought to be resolved back into 
matter. I doubt that any chemist will ever be found willing to 
guarantee such recovery. 



POSTULATES. 



First — That there cannot be any such thing as self-generation. 
There must be co-ordination between two at least prece- 
dent thereof, or co-terminus. 

Second — This involves the generic law of cause and effect. 

Third— There can be no effect anywhere without its cause. 



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Fourth— Every effect predicates a Cause. 

Fifth — In the Universe we see wonderful effects. 

Sixth — Hence there must be a Cause. 

Seventh— -For unity of action there can be but One Cause. 

Eighth— The existence of that Cause, without generation, 
necessitates eternity of being. 

Ninth— Hence, A Being, which means Life, Light (Intelli- 
gence), Power (Energy), over All in All— Cause. 

Tenth— That investigations of any object become more practi- 
cal and effective as we arrive at actual facts, or those 
truths bordering facts which we are unable to fully 
uncover, from present knowledge, and by striving to get 
at primary sources. 

Eleventh — We should not base conclusions upon theories derived 
from secondary causes as against unclear or probable pri- 
mary causes, even if the latter be not fully proved when 
those secondary cause theories are disproved. 

Tivelfth— Reason demands that we accept evidence which is 
the most reasonable and comprehensive, excluding none ; 
especially that which includes consciousness as the 
identifyer both of organic and inorganic existence and 
of their dual and interlocking relations within a great 
First Cause the grand denouement of which so clearly 
points to a preparation for its physical manifestation 
and hence as the child of Design and in "His Image.' ' 



NATURAL LAW. 



That which we call natural law is but a natural process 
compulsorily operative under express or preparatory conditions 
which bespeak a preconceived preparation and adaptation of 
multifarious and correlative, yet independent parts, capable of 
entering into co-ordination and co-operation. A law coter- 
minally operative according as the preparations made for these 
operations are complete. It must therefore be a law growing 
out from compulsion by a pre-agency as the founder of that 
law ; such compulsion being determined by the relation of the 
co-operative energies stored up in their respective matrices of 
atoms or subliminal divisions thereof. 

Supreme Energy implies manifold attributes so as to 
appear under many forms of volition, one of which I wish to 
consider under its highest known manifestations in the human 
race as Organic-Energy as Life. 

Organic energy can be exerted to the point of breaking 
down its vehicle of operation: e. g., a man's mental energy 
can be so exerted as to break down his physical body— it often 
occurs, which proves his mental forces as being the dominating 
force ; if it were otherwise, and the body being the creator of 
those energies, the energy could not be exerted beyond the 
capacity of the body to create, as flux can occur only from 
some higher impulse. That is, the flux is determined physi- 
cally by the initiating impulse supplied by the balance between 
the bodily forces themselves, at or near zero, and can at no 
time exceed the initiative impulse. 

Taking these two distinct features of organic and inor- 
ganic matter into comparison proves that both are controlled by 
exactly reverse application of energies. One by ' 'volition' ' the 
other by natural law, one unlimited by law, the other limited 
under that law, but compulsory by the necessities demanded 
for the complete co-ordination and balancing of the forces of 
nature operating within such organic body which require that 
they work at all times in complete harmony with each other, 
as any interruption between such operations would cause schism 
within the body. 



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Hence we have Volition and Natural Law operating in 
nature. 

Assuming that these two forces or guiding principles ex- 
press the manner of their operating throughout all nature, and 
thus themselves proving their existence and dual relationship, 
let us briefly consider the method of their operations in the or- 
der primarily of their importance causally. 

We have therefore, primarily, " Volition/ ' as a free Agent 
unlimited and unconfined, considered by itself as an entity; in- 
asmuch as whatever can be considered as an ultimate Cause 
must have accorded to it the character of an entity, or free 
agent whether it be assumed to be some "unknowable" energy 
or some recognized Being as such Cause. 

' 'Volition' ' as free Agent implies a living and self -oper- 
ating energy and when unconfined is capable of exercising itself 
in all directions and in all manner of ways while in all respects 
it will be consistent to itself as an uncontaminated, or pure, en- 
ergy. For our present purposes we wish to express its meaning 
as a living Energy representative of a pure Will and that every 
manifestation of that will that wherever and whenever it may 
occur that manifestation itself should be pure, or to reflect its 
own type. This volition has had its only full development in 
the human race; as man alone can be said to reflect that char- 
acteristic, which however has become dependent upon prepar- 
atory conditions capable of and charged with that living, will- 
begotten energy; and, which conditions must of necessity be 
such as shall be capable of instant response to the volitions as 
they arise; all of which are found to exist in the highest type 
of organic life and which as before stated are subject to its con- 
trol even to the extent of causing disintegration, or disorgan- 
ization of its vehicle of manifestations. 

But as we have assumed that this intelligent volition that 
characterizes the human race has become only possible through 
an organic stage preparatory to its full development (which 
preparation proves design) within that organism, it also eluci- 
dates the fact that a semi-conscious organism was essential for 
intermediary forms of living and conscious, moving creatures; 
having possibly sufficient development of structure to permit of 
the exercise of will but so far only as it applies to every other 



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form of the order of moving creatures below man, of exactly 
the same degree of development, and, for the development of 
instincts to provide sustenance and other requirements, which 
are clearly discernable in the higher orders of animal life. 

This organic life can be traced down through various 
characteristics of cellular life from the lowest forms of animal 
into the vegetable kingdom of life; below which we come to an 
order of existence called inorganic but yet upon which all or- 
ganic life depends by reason of the ' 'Spirituelle of Matter." 

As to things inorganic, we find like provisions made 
throughout the inorganic Universe as continually being supplied 
to meet every want of man; both as to his physical needs and to 
his mental (there is yet one higher stage— the Immortal) de- 
velopment; still, along lines of strictly physical needs. 

That ' 'provision" exists, in that every subliminal portion 
of matter has been charged (from only one source) with posi- 
tive characteristics of energy, which I have called the ' 'Quali- 
ties" of matter, by or through which all nature is called upon to 
contribute to the sustenance and well-being of man, not exer- 
cising volition but operating under the compulsion of the arbi- 
trary laws of nature. 

Is there any connection to be seen between the founda- 
tions of a universe and man as its crowning glory; and that man 
possessing characteristics by which such stupendous results 
were alone carried on? 

Does not such a series of wonderful developments in but 
this one little world of ours burst forth with evidence of a 
providential foresight which one can scarcely call by any other 
name than Design? and that it speaks louder than words as a 
' 'still small voice" of inward conviction of that primeval source 
of all creative, sustaining, inspiring and illuminating power upon 
which the universe of matter depends, and, as the source of all 
purity and dependence of whom man in his highest character- 
istic should be the expression of "His likeness" as the Bible 
alone has revealed it, and, also that as a deep conviction and 
demonstration of its truth, man may feel it as that conviction 
thrills throughout his whole being? 



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Substitute the following matter in place of the first para- 
graph of page 40. (To appear as page 41). 

To Be (existence) demands that there be an order of conscious 
Life capable not only of cognizance of itself but also of "things" to 
which it has become related in many directions as dependencies for its 
own physical manifestations. These relations include not only cogniz- 
ance of self but also cognizance of self's correlative attributes, in which 
conception and the determinism by which the co-ordination of various 
elements, are later to supply the inciting cause of such manifestations, 
constitute "germinal nuclei"* of every conceptional form in which "all 
their members are written when as yet there are none of them." 

These relations are imperative for the purpose of establishing an 
order, or process in Nature which shall be (I believe is) immutable in 
its operations and thus to establish its own Order of life within physical 
life and thereby give full evidence of its relation to Organic Life. 

But as Organic Life must depend upon a condition of preparation 
for it under the order of inorganic "things, "there must be an intimate re- 
lation between the vehicle of manifestation and that order of life of many 
forms for which Inorganic "things" were prepared, or "determined;" 
and hence "To Be" must have an intimate connection with "things" in 
their objective relations. 

This "order of life" gives sanction to an existence both of Organic 
life and of Inorganic things as arising out from an eternal unity of Being 
inasmuch as both have issued from one source. 



Explanatory note of new matter and of indicated signs on 

page 40. 

•Note — "Germinal nuclei" in organic forms already determined "when as yet there 
were none of them"— i. e., not a member had been yet formed— may in a small degree be 
compared to the preliminary state of the human mind in many respects which J would 
illustrate in a way familiar to many, 

I refer to a condition everywhere operating in the realm of human activities wherein 
new methods and new means are being continuously brought into operation in order to at- 
tain to certain results in which are called into play the powers of the human mind in a cer- 
tain order, or somewhat as follows: 

Suggestion, conception (planning) and execution. 

Suggestion, or a desire for a something whereby a certain result may be attained may 
not amount to anything except one plans the means to accomplish it. The suggestion or 



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rude conception of a something is very vague but the providing of the means by which to 
give that something shape or form very often involves the most intense concentration of the 
mind, and in certain conditions or necessities requires the widest range of thought and the 
application of many fundamental principles, all of which have to be considered or planned 
for in the most accurate manner, so that all the elements or integers of construction shall 
operate in exact relations, or co-ordinate one with the other and all in exact harmony. 

All this has to be pre-conceived in the thought before aline is laid to give a basis for 
the lines, and finally when every line is laid which has existed in the mind or thought of the 
originator then we have come to every member thereof as the "germinal nuclei" as deter- 
mined in the mind of the originator of those members "while as yet there were none of 
them." 

This process involves thought along lines of the "non-existent" or the "un-con- 
ditioned" but which by human thought are brought out from the "unconditioned" into the 
"conditioned," which gives a positive relation of the "conditioned" with the conditioner 
and constitutes the most positive evidence of their relations. 

(2—2). To human consciousness, or of failure to comprehend it. 

3. The point I wish to make here is that those who refuse to recognize any evidence 
as to an existence, even though unapparent to physical sense, run counter to all scientific 
ideals, such as are based wholly upon fundamental law. 



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Suggestions as to Immortality of Man's Spiritual Life. 



Or Life as capable of possessing and maintaining the 
characteristics of personality. 

In the lower forms of organic life, life is one of degrees 
of energy, although undoubtedly of a greater intensity than 
that which is represented in any of the forms of the spirituelle 
of matter (in which that energy lies dormant) , and, although 
those lower living forms die, their life under a law of con- 
servation of energy again merges back into the great fount of 
free energy from whence it proceeded as determined by the 
setting apart for the purpose of a special order of life where- 
with to supply the principle of life to the lower order of organic 
existence. 

This was notably done in relation to the higher forms of 
organic life constituting humanity; at death, " returning to 
God who gave it," but in which humanity received, in addition 
thereto, a special order of life which constituted man as being 
"in the likeness of God," and which was typified by "God 
breathing into his nostrils the breath (typical of his essence) 
of life and man became a living soul," constituting " a being " 
as man but a little lower than the angels of God in this : that 
angels are not subjected to the limitations of corporeal or mate- 
rial forms. 

But, it may be objected that if the lower order of life can 
be merged into that energy from which it issued (which was a 
specialization) why will not human souls (above that of phys- 
ical life) also merge back into its source when its physical life 
leaves its tenement of clay? The answer plainly must be, that 
the purposes of God must stand, whether as to all creation or as 
to the giving of himself to the objects of His power and of His 
Love, and more especially that the soul of man is of the breath 
or " essence " of God. 

The subjects of Infinite power and Love and "likeness" 
are — must be— as immortal in their nature and personality as 
are the material things, or elements, in their nature, i. e., as 
being under a corresponding law, or as proceeding from one 
intelligent and determined purpose in both cases. It would 
seem that there can be no doubt about this. 

The "organic" indicates the entrance of life as an endoiv- 
ment, not as a development, and certainly not as an evolution. 






APPENDIX 

OF 

Explanatory References as per signs, or otherwise, indicating 

their relation; also remarks to make the theory clearer. 



Add 

Yet we know not (to illustrate a fact apparent in all the elements of 
matter) how it is that Water was made Water and Iron was made 
Iron although we use and evaluate both, and yet, some refuse to 
utilize their more intimate relations to their Author in the triparte 
relation of Author, subject, and object. 

"endowed with power of resistance"; see also page 32; 4th and 5th 
line from bottom "causing equilibration." 

After elements read — being inert. 

After all read— inorganic instead of organic. 

Insert after life— await, to. 

Meaning "qualities," as the "spirituelle of matter" here representing 
the co-efficient of life (as degrees of energy required to establish 
an order in Nature as free energy— the organic)— capable of enter- 
ing into "relations" and combinations with the inorganic ("things") 
both simple and complex. 

i. e., there is no indication of any free, or immanent force anywhere 
in inorganic nature. 

i. e., the means had to be prepared whereby the differentiated de- 
grees between vibrant life and inert matter (in their dual relation) 
were brought into co-ordination as a process issuing from one Su- 
preme Life to be governed by Natural Law in its own Order; and 
yet as preparatory for the succeeding and distinct Order of direct 
and Spiritual Order of relations of the Soul, or of the mind of Man 
to the Infinite Mind of which it is the type. 

Atoms (substance) in motion are dynamic. 

Last paragraph ending on page 13 (refers to) Origin of Matter as a 
Creation. 

Note inserted. 

As "manifestations" of Almighty power. 

Read "inorganic" before matter. 

Read "organic" before matter. 

Read "those" in place of its. 

After energy read (matter does not act in this way, being under the 
law of dormant energy but life acts as free energy). 

Fourth paragraph, (on flame) add (Things that cause flame are those 
in which life alone has co-ordinated the elements that enter into 
combustion, as: wood, coal, gases, paper, etc.) 

After to, read— by growth. 

"finished concepts,"* see page 4, line 6; also, page 32, fifth line from 
bottom. 

"persist*" refers to the "Persistance of Types." 

"Constitution of Matter," 9th line, "causing* equilibration"— refers 
to "Resistance" as a "quality" of matter as establishing the law of 
Inertia:— a very important "relation" as constituting substance in 
concrete, or, material forms (see also page 4, lines 5 and 6) . 

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